It's impossible not to be critical on how any one could look at this and think it was ok. You can blame anyone from the past you want for the conditions that existed. But when you see what one of these slave markets are like when these people arrive these ships to the americas, it's just a crazed kind of thing. And if it doesn't make you as mad as it made abraham lincoln, what's wrong with you?
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.